This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...au palais des Consuls, also the journal Le Bien-Informi for the 24th of Frimaire of the year VIII. power was in the hands of the First Consul, who was far more powerful than Louis XVI had been under the Constitution of 1789-1791. "The First Consul promulgates the laws; he appoints and recalls at will the members of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...au palais des Consuls, also the journal Le Bien-Informi for the 24th of Frimaire of the year VIII. power was in the hands of the First Consul, who was far more powerful than Louis XVI had been under the Constitution of 1789-1791. "The First Consul promulgates the laws; he appoints and recalls at will the members of the Council of State, the Ministers, ambassadors, and other external agents-in-chief; the officers of the army by land and sea; the members of local administrations, and the commissaries of the Government attached to the tribunals. He appoints all the criminal and civil judges other than the justices of peace and the judges of the appeal court, without being able to recall them" (Article 41). "In other governmental proceedings the Second and Third Consuls express themselves in consultation: they sign the register of these proceedings in order to testify to their presence; and if they wish they register their opinions; after which the decision of the First Consul suffices." Practically there was no legal barrier to Napoleon's will. Article 45 stated clearly that an annual law would determine the total revenue and expenditure. But the Government proposed this law, which the Legislative Corps had to accept or reject as a whole, without amendments. Out of a kind of derisory respect for the principles of liberal governments, it was stated in Article 5 5 that no enactment of the Government could take effect unless it were signed by a Minister; and Article 72 stated that Ministers would be responsible. But senators, legislators, tribunes, Consuls, Councillors of State, and so forth, were not responsible (Article 69). Agents of the Government could only be proceeded against for matters relating to their duties in virtue of a decision ...
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